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Re: [Bacula-users] Volume recycled twice in a single job!!!

2008-07-09 16:33:12
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Volume recycled twice in a single job!!!
From: Arno Lehmann <al AT its-lehmann DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:32:51 +0200
Hi,

09.07.2008 17:04, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm using 2.4.0 (from port system) on FreeBSD with Postgres as database 
> back-end and I'm experiencing what I believe is a serious issue.
> 
> Lately I'm getting the following:
> 
> 09-Jul 16:47 sd JobId 5394: End of Volume "Tape80" at 16:7487 on device 
> "DDS-4" (/dev/nsa0). Write of 64512 bytes got 0.
> 09-Jul 16:47 sd JobId 5394: End of medium on Volume "Tape80" 
> Bytes=16,481,977,344 Blocks=255,486 at 09-Jul-2008 16:47.
> 09-Jul 16:49 sd JobId 5394: Recycled volume "Tape80" on device "DDS-4" 
> (/dev/nsa0), all previous data lost.
> 09-Jul 16:49 sd JobId 5394: New volume "Tape80" mounted on device 
> "DDS-4" (/dev/nsa0) at 09-Jul-2008 16:49.
> 
> 
> This started happening with Tape18, so I canceled the job, deleted that 
> tape from the DB, relabeled it as Tape80 (which thus resulted new) and 
> started it again.
> 
> One single job will fill that tape, purge it, then start over *on the 
> same tape*.
> 
> Is this a known issue?
> 
> I find it quite hard to track this down, since it worked until a few 
> days ago and I didn't even restart the deamon in between. Of course I've 
> restarted it now, but the problem shows up again.
> 
> Also I've got two tape drives on two different machines and the other 
> does not show this error.
> 
> I've yet to see wether it will recylce only twice or more times.
> 
> 
> Any help appreciated.

I suggest you upgrade to the latest beta version and retry. I believe 
some work has been done on that aspect.

Of course you should first follow Brians advice to really make sure 
your retention times are set correctly.

Arno


> 
> 
>   bye & Thanks
>       av.
> 
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